January 31, 2009

• DELIVER ME JESUS

  
  —from the desire to be praised, honored, glorified, preferred, consulted, or approved.

  
  Deliver me, Jesus, from the fear of being humiliated, criticized, forgotten, ridiculed, maltreated, and from the fear of what others think.

   

  O Jesus, give me the grace to desire:

  
  that others would be loved and esteemed ahead of me, that in the eyes of the world they would increase while I decrease, and praised while I pass by unnoticed;

   

  that others would be preferred in all situations; that others would become more than myself –

   

  in order that I would be as holy as You want me to be.

   

  Charles de Foucauld.

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